🔷 What Materializer does

Materializer creates one material per Group or Component and applies it directly to faces.

• Only faces are painted
• Repeated Components share one material
• Groups with the same name share one material

This keeps materials consistent and easy to manage.

🔷 How Materializer decides what material to use

Materializer follows a simple priority order:

1. Components
   Faces inside a Component always use the Component's material.
2. Groups
   Groups paint their own direct faces.
3. Tags (Advanced option)
   Tags are used only for loose geometry when nothing else applies.

🔷 How to get the best results

• Put geometry inside Groups or Components
• Use Components for repeated objects
• Use Groups for unique objects
• Name things clearly
  Names become material names.

🔷 Advanced Tab (Optional)

Advanced options are optional and reset each time.

• Material Prefix: adds text before every generated material name (example: M_).
• Materialize from Tags: use this for loose, tag-organized geometry (often CAD imports).
• Tag Naming: optionally add Tag names as a prefix or suffix in material names.

For most SketchUp models, leave Advanced options off and use structure-based mapping.

🔷 Summary

Materializer uses your model's structure first, applies materials only to faces, and produces clean, predictable results with one click.